Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term) 

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity – project conference

University of Warsaw

September 27th – 29th 2018

To view the programme and register your participation, please see here.

Dr Efthymios Rizos of the Cult of Saints project is convening a seminar series at the University of Oxford on The Cult of Saints in the First Millennium.

Seminar Programme

Time: Friday 5.00 – 7.00 pm

Venue: Radcliffe Humanities Building, University of Oxford – Seminar Room (3^rd floor)

22 January: Paweł Nowakowski (Oxford, The Cult of Saints Project)

Epitaph for a saint: considerations on the epigraphical aspects of the burial of martyrs

5 February: Nikoloz Aleksidze (Pembroke College)

King Vačagan the Pious and his Long Hunt for Relics

19 February: Maria Lidova (Wolfson College)

Art as Evidence for the Joint Cult of Saints: John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in Early Medieval Rome and Byzantium

4 March: Philip Booth (Trinity College)

Text, Shrine, and Supplicant in the Eastern Cult of Saints (5^th – 7^th centuries)

• North of England Saints, 600-1500 (Oxford, 21-22 March 2015); The conference will bring together scholars from around the UK but also from Europe and the USA to discuss the importance of sanctity and the cults of saints in the North of England between the fall of Rome and the Reformation.  http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/Tutors/Academic-news/Northern-Saints-Conference-2015.aspx

• The door of the sanctuary: a place of transition (Amsterdam, 27-29 May 2015)     http://medievalartresearch.com/2014/09/27/cfp-the-door-of-the-sanctuary-a-place-of-transition-amsterdam-27-29-may-2015/

• Late Antique Hagiography as Literature (Edinburgh, 20-21 May 2015)